"So, you two are going through a painful break up after dating for five years, but you both still want to go on tour for a month this summer? Oh, that's right, you both promised the break up wouldn't affect the band at all, and though it obviously is already, I guess we should still do this tour. It'll be fine, and not awkward and uncomfortable enough to make me want to quit the band."

tallchris wrote:"So, you two are going through a painful break up after dating for five years, but you both still want to go on tour for a month this summer? Oh, that's right, you both promised the break up wouldn't affect the band at all, and though it obviously is already, I guess we should still do this tour. It'll be fine, and not awkward and uncomfortable enough to make me want to quit the band."

You were in No Doubt?

AWESOME.

Let's name our band Tom Tom Petty

dontfeartheringo wrote:The rest of you: Envy us, motherfuckers!

Genghis Khan won a land war in Russia, too, but I don't really envy him for it.

My girlfriend made us all these cool coats and guitar straps. Lets wear them at every gig!

I know a short cut through East St Louis.

burun wrote:

tallchris wrote:"So, you two are going through a painful break up after dating for five years, but you both still want to go on tour for a month this summer? Oh, that's right, you both promised the break up wouldn't affect the band at all, and though it obviously is already, I guess we should still do this tour. It'll be fine, and not awkward and uncomfortable enough to make me want to quit the band."

You were in No Doubt?

AWESOME.

Would that mean I would have made some money of the band?

I recommend to everyone to not be in a band with a couple. Another band I'm friends with more or less imploded as a direct result of the keyboard player and guitar player having a bad breakup.

Oh re: selling CDRs when you don't have the manufactured CDs: I think this is just making the best out of a crappy situation. As J. Burns noted, it worked for my previous band, though I'm sure we would have sold more at those shows if we'd had the cd's proper.

davesec wrote:i also briefly recall a girlfriend who could NOT whisper. no matter what. should she, at 3am, when numerous bands are sleeping in an attic, choose to talk to her boyfriend about photography, we had no choice but to listen to her yell it out

I'm pretty sure that the majority of people like this do it because they're nearly deaf, or suffer from serious hearing damage. Sometimes it's a childhood sickness like a bad ear infection or something, sometimes it's continual exposure to loud noise, whatever. So it may be something the person has little or no control over.

People like that drive me up a tree.


This thread is making me feel really lucky, because I can only think of very few things to post. Silly stuff like making flyers for shows and putting them up around town, when I can say with pretty good certainty that it brought zero people to our shows and cost us money we really didn't have... or agreeing to shoot a video and then when the "director" decided that we'd mime along with the recording, standing around and staring at the floor because we thought it was stupid as hell...

the only good ones I can think of are when I was very briefly in an "industrial" band in about '96, and we played the Dome Room with our singer having carved up his chest with a razor before the show... having been involved in that band beyond just playing bass on the record, it was all bad news.

also, around that same time, a band I was in somehow ended up playing 26 shows in Chicago in one calendar year. that's something I won't do again. I mean, 26 shows in a year, if I'm lucky. But not all in the same city!!!!

scott wrote:also, around that same time, a band I was in somehow ended up playing 26 shows in Chicago in one calendar year. that's something I won't do again. I mean, 26 shows in a year, if I'm lucky. But not all in the same city!!!!

We are hovering around 30 since last June, I would have played twice as many if it was possible. I'll play every night, fuck it. Why not?

Marsupialized wrote:We used to have a DJ in our band, I shit you not.
Nobody will admit it was their idea, nobody even remembers asking dude to be in the band yet we played both the empty bottle and subterranean for the first times with a DJ going wick wick wack in the background.
The Empty Bottle show we also had a dude playing bongos. A DJ and Bongos. Yes. For real.
Too much weed for too long, you start to think stupid shit like having a DJ and bongo player in the band is cool.

Eventually we changed the name and kicked everyone out, but kept all the songs. We still play some of those songs, just sped them the fuck up and chopped about 12 minutes off each.

this thread needs more pcitures

yaledelay wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:We used to have a DJ in our band, I shit you not.
Nobody will admit it was their idea, nobody even remembers asking dude to be in the band yet we played both the empty bottle and subterranean for the first times with a DJ going wick wick wack in the background.
The Empty Bottle show we also had a dude playing bongos. A DJ and Bongos. Yes. For real.
Too much weed for too long, you start to think stupid shit like having a DJ and bongo player in the band is cool.

Eventually we changed the name and kicked everyone out, but kept all the songs. We still play some of those songs, just sped them the fuck up and chopped about 12 minutes off each.

this thread needs more pcitures

There are none. None at all.